Three AI boats to add to scenery using the information in ai_ships.zip by Holger Sandmann.

Open this file in winzip and click on the extract button on top. Make sure all files and use folder names are selected, then extract into your main Flight Simulator directory.

!!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!!

TEXTURES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD

These boats use default flight simulator textures, and the files servers have asked that we not include them in uploads due to copyrights.

Go to flight simulator 9\scenery\vehicles\texture. You should find the following two files there.

Powerboats.bmp
Powerboats_LM.bmp

COPY (not move) those two files to the texture folders for each of the three boats as follows:

flight simulator 9\aircraft\ai 22ft boat\texture
flight simulator 9\aircraft\ai 30ft boat\texture
flight simulator 9\aircraft\ai 40ft boat\texture

!!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!!

The effect files are not included with this download. You will need ai_shipx.zip (newer than the ones in ai_ships.zip) also by Holger Sandman to see the effects.

I found that by creating multiple "paints" of the boats in the aircraft.cfg file, the same boats can be used multiple times in the same area and still show the effects. More information on that is in ai_ships.zip. The additional "paints" do not use different textures or look different. I made three of each available. Feel free to add more as needed.

Scenery designers may distribute these boats in scenery freely.

ai_ships.zip by Holger Sandmann zip is required for information on how to setup ai airports and taxiways.

afcad is required to create ai airports and taxiways.

ai_shipx.zip is required for effects. These are newer versions of the ones in ai_ships.zip.


Larry Silsbee
Spanaway, WA
larrysil@earthlink.net